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Fix These Children Please

His stories are out-of-this-world, the teacher says, in a huffy way. Steven King, I think. Another teacher slides into an empty seat beside me. “He exaggerates everything.” Robin Williams I think. The teacher across from me flips her hair and brags, “Her behavior is off the wall.” Pink I think. “She sings all the time,” says another. The lunchroom is on a roll today, wanting me to fix children. Lady Gaga I think. “The only thing he thinks about is basketball,” another teacher says as she walks in from her smoke break. A break they have to drive fifty feet from the school to have, but still she brings smoking pores in here, and I am an asthmatic. Michael Jordan I think. “He claims spirit is talking to him,” the principal says. Prove it is not spirit, I think. She catches my eye, turns and leaves; we are best friends, and she knows how I feel about spirit.

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M. L. Kiser

Date: 10/12/2018 10:29:00 AM

Oh that's cute; you could even add more to this one...luv'd it.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/12/2018 3:08:00 PM

I could have written on this one for days, but school was starting, and once it starts people seem to think they need me for a bunch of stuff. Since they pay me well, I do not mind.

Rhona Mcferran

Date: 10/12/2018 10:19:00 AM

Someone needs to fix the grown people! ;P Love your little inner dialog and the knowing look and avoidance of your principal friend... beautifully captured!

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/12/2018 3:09:00 PM

My principals have always learned right away either we are going to become arch-enemies, or the best friends ever. There is no gray for me in the boss department.

Line Gauthier

Date: 10/12/2018 8:37:00 AM

So true - You are a visionary and more people have to see kids for their potential. We hear of so many stars that were teased and bullied as kids... we hate to imagine how many kids with potential (the ALL have potential) were crushed and maimed beyond recognition with the life force sucked right out of them... imagine the kind of world we could live in if kids were encouraged to find and nurture their potential. Lovely thought-provoking poem, Caren.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/12/2018 3:11:00 PM

Thank you Line. I hear these things and I immediately think of the dreamers, the doers, the ones who "made it" in spite of the little minded people - many of them becoming famous for their uniqueness, and living to delight us all.

Sunidhi Sharma

Date: 10/12/2018 8:00:00 AM

Hello ma'am. I love the ease you provide in your poems. Also the addition of reality potion to the imagery aspect of your poem is really wonderful. I would love to seek knowledge in this world of Rhapsody.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/12/2018 3:11:00 PM

Thank you so much Sunidhi. I like your poetry a whole bunch also. You are free to borrow any idea I have, I would be honored. I have almost no knowledge of poetry but I am learning and will share all I know.